The World Drug Perception Problem. Countering Prejudices about People Who Use Drugs
Testo completo
Documenti correlati
While the Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights has pushed for more balanced and comprehensive policies, other UN organizations, such as the United Nations Office
This assessment identified two distinctive models of integrated HIV, TB and drug dependency service provision. The Combined Therapy Centre (CTC)
Table 3: Number of cases and trends in illicit drug- and cocaine-related episodes from collection systems that reported more than fifty cocaine-related cases in the 2010 (published
Table 4.72 Blood-borne viruses: Hepatitis B vaccination status by prison drug use category 98 Table 4.73 Blood-borne viruses: Hepatitis B vaccination location (among those who
4 By decriminalizing possession and investing in treatment and harm reduction services, we can reduce the harms of drug misuse while improving public safety and health.. More
6.1 The evidence developed for this report allows us to make one strong state- ment: the Drug Problem manifests itself in many different ways and its impact also varies among
• In 2011, an estimated 20.6 million persons (8.0 percent of the population aged 12 or older) were classified with substance dependence or abuse in the past year based on criteria
The jurisprudence of the UN Human Rights Committee indicates that only crimes which directly result in death could be considered as ‘most serious’, 33 and, as pointed out by